Julie Gallagher

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Based on positive customer response to a four-store pilot, Piggly Wiggly Carolina here will roll out a biometric point-of-sale payment system to the rest of its 83 company stores by May.The system...

POINT PLEASANT, N.J. -- Norkus Foodtown's visit-specific, phone and Web-based customer surveys are "absolutely more effective" than the annual in-store surveys that it previously conducted, said Suzanne LaFrance...

Next week, at the National Retail Federation's 94th Annual Convention and Expo in New York, attendees will have an opportunity to see "X05," described as the "ultimate in in-store design."Featuring solutions "to...

ALTOONA, Pa. -- The Sheetz convenience store chain here will roll out a radio frequency-based credit/rewards card. It will also install receivers equipped to accept the card and other RF-based contactless payment...

In 2005, retailers are processing longer and more variable product bar codes, but bar codes on coupons were left out of the equation.Coupon bar codes, with fixed six-digit manufacturer codes, are ill-equipped to...

SALISBURY, N.C. -- Food Lion here plans to join an online network later this quarter that will allow it to more easily communicate with its existing inbound transportation providers as well as new providers.The...

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. -- For Price Chopper Supermarkets here, it's lease, not buy, when it comes to tractors in its transportation fleet.Thus, next March, it will enter into its latest leasing agreement with Fort...

Can groceries be successfully sold in the ethereal world of cyberspace -- without any ownership connection to established brick-and-mortar supermarkets?That question has been posed ever since Peapod set up the first...